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A. J. FISHER.

CLOTHES WRINGER.

APPLICATION'FILED 0CT.24. 1914.

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ALVA J. FISHER, 0F EVANSTON, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR T0 HURLEY MACHINE COMPANY,

0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

CLOTHES-WRINGER.

Patented Aug. 22, 1916.

Application filed October 24, 1914. Serial No. 868,358.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALVA J. FIsHER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Evanston, Cook county, Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Wringers, of which the .following is a specification.

My invention relates to clothes wringers and the improvement consists in providing a simple and efficient construction of guard device therefor to act as a guard for the wringer rolls. I preferably employ two guards, one on each side of the rolls, and so construct and arrange the same that they are independent of the drip board and adapted to be held in operative position with a yielding pressure and. preferably in inoperative position with such pressure.

The various features of novelty and utility in my guard will be apparent from the description hereinafter given.

In the drawing,Figure 1 is a side elevation of a wringer embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 a sectional end elevation on the line 22 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 an elevation of the other side of the wringer; and Fig. 4 a section on the line 4-4: of Fig. 3.

My invention is applicable to an ordinary clothes wringer which includes the end frames 1 and rollers 2. I prefer to provide, as here shown, two guards, one on each side of the rolls so that the clothes may be put through the wringer in either direction.

However, as will be obvious, a single guard may be employed where the clothes are put through the wringer in one direction only. The two guards are similar in construction and operation and hence a description of one will apply to both.

Each guard comprises a plate 3 preferably of metal and having a horizontal slot 4: adapted, when the guard is in operative position with respect to the rolls, to register with the bite of such rolls. The plate is provided at its upper corners with bearing portions or pins 5 and 6, of which the latter one is extended and bent to form a crank arm 7 extending beyond one of the end frames 1. These bearing pins are mounted in bearings 8 secured to the sides of the end frames 1. The plate thus depends from its pivotal axis and when in operative position presents its slot 4 to the bite of the rolls as described.

Theguards are adapted to be held in operative posltion with a yielding pressure and in the present. instance the same pressure means is employed for that purpose and also for the purpose of holding either one or both of theguards in their inoperative position. As shown, such result is obtained by means of the single coiled spring-8 connect- 1ng between the two crank arms 7. It will be understood that when a guard is thrown upwardly to inoperative position, as shown by the left hand guard in Fig. 2, the spring Wlll serve to hold it in such position, at the same time holding the right hand guard in operative position. The left hand guard can be moved to operative position by positive force applied by the operator to such guard by merely swinging the same downwardly whereupon the spring will hold such guard in operative position. In reverse manner the other guard can be swung upwardly to inoperative position to which it will be held by the spring. In some instances, as when blankets are being put through the wringer itis desirable to dispense with the use of guards, whereupon both guards are swung upwardly to inoperative position and held in suchposition by the spring. It will be understood that in case only one guard is employed, the spring will be connected at one end to its crank-arm and at the other end to some fixed point on the wringer frame.

It will be observed that the guards are unconnected with the wringer except as to their pivoting means, and in particular that they are unconnected with the drip-board 10 which is pivoted and adapted to be held in one position or the other by means of the spring 11 bearing on the cross rod 12. With the right-hand guard in operative position, as shown in Fig. l, the drip-board is in a position to deflect the water on that side, as also shown in said figure. When the clothes are wrung through from the other side the drip-board is turned to the other inclination in the well-known way.

I claim: 7

1. In combination with a clothes-wringer including the rolls thereof, a guard pivoted on the wringer and having a slot registering with the bite of the rolls, and means for holding the guard either in operative or inoperative position with a yielding pressure.

2. In combination with a clothes wringer including the rolls thereof, a guard pivoted on the wringer and having a slot registering with the bite of the rolls, and spring means for pressing the guard to operative position,

said guard being arranged to be swung to an inoperative position and held thereat by said spring means.

-3. In combination with a clothes wringer v including the rolls thereof, a guard pivoted on the wringer and having a slot registering with the bite of the rolls, said guard having 7 a crank-arm at its pivotal axis, and a spring cooperating with said arm whereby the guard is held either in operative or inoperative position with a yielding pressure.

4. In combination with a clothes wringer including the rolls thereof, a guard pivoted on an axis at its upper end tothe wringer and depending from such axis, said guard having a slot adapted, when in operative position, to registerjwith the bite of the rolls, and means for holding the guard in said operative position-with a yielding pres- 5. In combination with a clothes wringer including the rolls thereof, guards pivoted to the wringer at their upper ends and arranged on opposite sides'of the rolls, said 7. In combination with a clothes wringer including the rolls thereof, guards pivoted to the wringer at their upper ends and ar-' ranged on opposite sides of the rolls, said guards having crank-arms at their pivotal axes, and a spring connecting between said arms for holding the guards either in opera-' tive or inoperative position with a yielding pressure. 7

8. Incombination with a clothes wringer including the rolls thereof, uards pivoted on each side of the wringer and means common to both guards for holding one of them in operative position and the other in inoperative position with a yielding-pressure.

ALVA J. FISHER. Witnesses: Y

L. J. CASEY, 'E. H. MANKE. 

